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Headword:
Charôn
Adler number: chi,136
Translated headword: Charon, Kharon
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Of
Lampsakos;[1] son of Pythokles; lived during the reign of the first [King] Dareios, in the 79th Olympiad; but rather in the time of the Persian Wars, the 75th Olympiad.[2] A historian, he wrote
Ethiopian Histories;
Persian Histories in 2 books;
Greek Histories in 4 books;
Concerning Lampsakos in 2;
Libyan Histories;
Chronicles of the Lampsakenes in 4 books;
Prytaneis or Archons of the Lakedaimonians - these are annals;
Foundations of Cities in 2 books;
Cretan Histories in 3 books - including the laws laid down by Minos; [and]
Voyage past the Pillars of HeraklesCharôn, Lampsakênos, huios Puthokleous, genomenos kata ton prôton Dareion, oth# olumpiadi: mallon de ên epi tôn Persikôn, kata tên oe# olumpiada: historikos. egrapsen Aithiopika, Persika en bibliois b#, Hellênika en bibliois d#, Peri Lampsakou b#, Libuka, Hôrous Lampsakênôn en bibliois d#, Prutaneis ê archontas tous tôn Lakedaimoniôn: esti de chronika: Ktiseis poleôn en bibliois b#, Krêtika en bibliois g#: legei de kai tous hupo Minôos tethentas nomous: Periploun tôn ektos tôn Hêrakleous stêlôn.
Notes:
C5 BCE, either early (as claimed here) or late (as argued by some modern scholars). See generally OCD(4) p.307, under Charon [
Author,
Myth](2); FGrH 262 + 687b; Drews 24-27.
[1] In the Troad, at the northern mouth of the Hellespont straits.
[2] These dates are 464-1 and 480-477 respectively.
Drews, Robert. The Greek Accounts of Eastern History. Washington, DC: 1973.
Keywords: biography; chronology; constitution; geography; historiography; history; law; mythology
Translated by: David Whitehead on 26 November 2001@03:04:48.
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